Modern Hearing Aids have microchips, computerization, and digitized sound processing, used in their design. This allows the hearing aid to have settings programmed for different listening environments such as quiet conversation in your home, noisy situations like a restaurant, or large areas like a theater.
Initially, we will program your hearing aids according to your personal audiogram (hearing test). The hearing aids will be adjusted with a generally accepted prescription of gain recommended by the National Acoustics Laboratory (NAL).
Since personal preference plays a large role in client satisfaction towards hearing aids, we will adjust the hearing aids to get them fine tuned to your specific hearing needs.
Our Audiologist in the Akron, Ohio area uses a computer to program hearing aids for different listening situations depending on your
individual hearing loss profile, speech understanding, and range of tolerance for louder sounds.Todays advanced digital hearing aids can automatically adjust for various environments, such as quiet situations, understanding speech in noise, music and places of worship.
Digital programmable hearing aids use "digitized sound processing" to convert sound waves into digital signals. A computer chip in the aid analyzes the signals of your environment to determine if the sound is noise or speech and then makes modifications to provide a clear, amplified distortion-free signal.
The digital processing allows for more flexibility in programming the aid so that the sound it transmits matches your specific pattern of hearing loss. This digital technology allows for improvement in programmability, greater precision in fitting, management of loudness discomfort, control of acoustic feedback (whistling sounds), and noise reduction.
